Prof. Matias Courdurier,
Fall 2007 Coordinator
Prof. Michael Weinstein, Spring 2008 Coordinator
9/7/07
Prof. I. C. Noyan, Materials Science and Engineering
"Microbeam diffraction and beyond"
and
Prof. Chris Wiggins, Applied Mathematics
"What I did last summer / an information theoretic approach
to quantifying evolvability in biological networks"
9/14/07
Prof. Michael Mauel, Applied Physics
"My sabbatical year as a diplomat"
and
Prof. Latha Venkataraman, Applied Physics
"Measuring the conductance of single molecule junctions"
9/21/07
Prof. David E. Keyes, Applied Mathematics
"A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto"
and
Prof. Thomas S. Pedersen, Applied Physics
"Latest results from the CNT experiment"
9/28/07
Prof. Matias Courdurier, Applied Mathematics
"Solving the interior problem of Computed Tomography using a priori knowledge"
and
Prof. Horst Stormer, Applied Physics
"Graphene: 'you can never be too thin or
too rich' Mrs. Simpson"
10/5/07
Prof. Siu-Wai Chan, Materials Science and Engineering
"Phase Stability in Nanoparticles of Binary Oxides: Ceria-Hafnia, and Hafnia-Zirconia"
and
Prof. Irving Herman, Applied Physics
"Physics of the human body and other nanomaterials"
10/12/07
Prof. William E. Bailey,
Materials Science and Engineering
"2008 Nobel Prize for Physics: giant magnetoresistance"
and
Prof. C. K. Chu, Applied Mathematics
"History of the department, part I"
10/19/07
Dr. Edwin Gerber, Applied Mathematics
"Stratosphere-troposphere coupling: the importance of stationary planetary waves"
and
Jake Hofman, Physics
"A Bayesian framework for community detection in networks"
10/26/07
Prof. Richard M. Osgood, Applied Physics
"High level research at the Surface"
and
Prof. Michael Mauel, Applied Physics
"Interchange dynamics in a plasma confined by a strong dipole magnetic field"
11/2/07
Prof. Guillaume Bal, Applied Mathematics
and
Dr. Shalom Wind, Materials Science and Engineering
"Putting it together at the nanoscale"
11/9/07
Prof. Marc Spiegelman, Applied Mathematics
"Computational magma dynamics and musings on other multi-physics problems"
and
Dr. Ui-Jin Chung, Materials Science and Engineering
"Melting and solidification of pulsed-laser-irradiated titanium oxide films"
11/16/07
Prof. I. C. Noyan, Materials Science and Engineering
"Writing Scientific and Technical Communications"
and
Dr. Jerry I. Dadap, Applied Physics
"Wiring up the future: advancing on-chip optical interconnects with deeply scaled silicon photonic wires"
11/23/07
No colloquium: University Holiday
11/30/07
Prof. Aron Pinczuk, Applied Physics
and
Mark Adams, Applied Physics
"Toward 'textbook' multigrid efficiency in fully implicit resistive MHD simulations of fusion plasmas"
12/7/07
Prof. Michael I. Weinstein, Applied Mathematics
and
Interim Dean and Prof. Gerald A. Navratil, Applied Physics
"Adventures in deanland - midterm report"